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IsraCast Interviews Professor Eyal Zisser, a leading expert on Syria

Is Syria's President Bashar Assad sincere in his peace overtures to Israel? On one hand Assad offers peace talks but on the other he has forged a strategic alliance with Iran which threatens to wipe the Jewish state off the map. Then again is the Syrian dilemma facing Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also linked to such issues as the U.S. war in Iraq, Iran's nuclear weapons program and the future of Lebanon? Professor Eyal Zisser, one of Israel's leading analysts on Syria, discussed where the current situation may be headed in this interview with reporter David Essing:

A Joint Israeli-Palestinian Soccer Team Played A Game For Peace In Seville

Vice Premier Shimon Peres: "We are trying to make peace, not just between governments, but also between people"

Although defeated 3-1 by an Andalusian selected team, players of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Soccer Team expressed their excitement on Wednesday, as they took part in the Match For Peace, which was organized by the Peres Center for Peace.

Peres: 'There will be peace between Syria and Israel, sooner or later'

'Four Israeli prime ministers indicated they are ready to give back the Golan Heights and at the last moment the Syrians backed out'

'If they want to talk, let them come and talk'

Vice-Premier Shimon Peres says he is certain there will be peace between Syria and Israel "sooner or later." In an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, Peres said there was no alternative. "They won't have a choice. Nobody has a choice. War becomes so expensive. It doesn't bring any conclusion. It doesn't have any justification."

British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday reiterated his commitment to help to bring about a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here is the transcript of the joint press conference given by Prime Minister Tony Blair and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem.

President Bush awarded Former Prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky with the highest civilian award

U.S. President George Bush awarded America's highest civilian honor to 10 men and women who have distinguished themselves in contributing to world peace, national security, and culture. Former Prisoner of Zion and Likud MK Natan Sharansky received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday at a White House ceremony.

Belz's spokesman Rabbi Eichler: 'They are a small group of anarchists, of which the Iranians made a cynical use'.

Leaders of Orthodox Streams in Judaism Condemn the Group of Hassidic Jews, Belonging to Anti-Zionist 'Neturei Karta' Stream, who Participated in the Iranian Holocaust Convention. Israel's Chief Rabbi Calls for an International Boycott - A Severe and Dramatic Act According to Jewish Law.

Ahmadinejad said Israel will one day be "wiped out", drawing applause from conference participants

Addressing participants in the International Conference on 'The Holocaust, Global Vision' in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said those who have rendered support to the Zionist regime should be aware that the lifetime of Israel will be soon over. 'The same way the ground was paved for the creation of such a regime, the Zionist regime will be dismantled by its supporters' he stressed.

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a myth

Meeting of Ahmadinejad and Palestinian President Haniyeh reminds of the meeting between Hitler and the Palestinian Mufti in 1941

Iran opened a conference on Monday to question whether the Holocaust ever took place, despite widespread condemnation by Western countries, including Germany. The conference will question whether gas chambers were used to exterminate six million Jews. The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly questioned the truth of the Holocaust, at one point describing the event as a "myth" and casting doubt on the scale of the killings.

IDF reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, who was captured by the Hizbullah on July 12, apparently suffered serious-to-critical wounds. The IDF Censor approved the publication of those facts on Wendsday.

Parents of the kidnapped soldiers rage about remarks made by PM Olmert concerning their sons.

Hezbollah demads the release of Samir Kuntar, unit commander of the shocking "Haran Family Massacre" that took place in Nahariya in 1979.

MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz on the situation between Israel and Egypt

In an article that was published in the Israeli Daily Ha'aretz, Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz presents his point of view on the current situation between Israel and the Egyptians. Dr. Steinitz belongs to the right-wing Likud party, and he is the former Chairman of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Knesset.

The America-Israel Friendship League sponsored a mission to Israel with the assistance of the National Association of Counties allowing county leaders from across the U.S. to visit Israel from November 12 -18, 2006. Additional assistance and cooperation was provided by the Union of Local Authorities of Israel. Participants included eleven county commissioners, executives and mayors, along with officials from the National Association of Counties.

Officials at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, an institution that has played a major role in raising public awareness of the continuing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and galvanizing Jewish groups on the issue, are frustrated that the killing continues despite the worldwide outcry.

46 years later Israel will conduct an official ceremony to honor the captors of the Nazi criminal

Listen to Gideon the late Gideon Hausner's Opening Speech at the Eichmann trial

Better late than never, the Ministerial Committee on Ceremonies and Honors has decided that Israel will conduct an official ceremony where a special honor will be given to everyone who participated in the capturing of Nazi criminal Adolph Eichmann and bringing him to justice in Israel.

Read about the life of Yasser Arafat

The Palestinian Authority is commemorating the second anniversary of Former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. Thousands of people took part in the central memorial ceremony which took place in the Muqata compound in Ramallah.

PM Olmert: "I am ready day and night, I am ready anytime, any place, without preconditions to sit down and talk with Mahmoud Abbas"

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for a meeting with chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "He will be surprised when he will sit with me of how far we are prepared to go. I can offer him a lot," Olmert said, without elaborating.

Grossman was the main speaker in the eleventh anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

The internationally acclaimed Israeli author David Grossman, whose son was killed in the war between Israel and the Hezbollah, was the main speaker yesterday in the memorial rally marking the eleventh anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Tens of thousands attended the rally, at 'Rabin square' in Tel-Aviv.

Exclusive: Interview in English with Yitzhak Rabin One Month Before His Assassination, Recorded and Edited by David Essing

A short time before his assassination at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin discussed some of the key issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an exclusive interview, part of which is now broadcast for the first time. It was one of Rabin's last in-depth interviews before he was shot dead by Yigal Amir on November 4th 1995.

On leaving a mass rally for peace held under the slogan "Yes to Peace, No to Violence," Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish right-wing extremist. Age 73 at his death, he was laid to rest before a shocked and grieving nation, in a state funeral on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem, attended by leaders from around the world. These were his last words: